a rare volume of ten moscow views after Auguste Cadolle, 1825

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Description

665 by 510mm., 26 1/4 by 20in.

large folio, complete with 10 lithographs printed by Engelmann, Paris, one lithographed leaf dedication to Tsar Alexander I and a list of subscribers some marginal foxing and light browning, contemporary binding

Catalogue Note

including views of:
The Kremlin from Kammeny Bridge
Red Square
Part of the City and its Environs
The Old Imperial Palace
The City seen from the Marshes at Presnya
View of the Orphanage
The City seen from Kammeny Bridge
General view of the Kremlin
Interior view of a part of Moscow

To be sold with an additional unbound lithograph of Petrovsk Palace after Auguste Cadolle.

The 1812 Fire of Moscow destroyed three quarters of the predominantly wooden city during the Napoleonic invasion. The new architectural ensembles which subsequently emerged phoenix-like from the ashes were instantly drawn and painted by artists at a time when there was a parallel development with more democratic forms of fine art – engraving, lithography and watercolour painting. These panoramic images proved immensely popular; the 6^th Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858), who attended the coronation of his close friend Tsar Nicholas I in 1826, owned a large collection which he housed in the specially named 'Moscow Room' in Chatsworth. Among the most celebrated of these vistas were those produced by Antoine Cadolle, previously an officer in the Napoleonic army, who lived in Russia from 1819 to 1825.